SHEELER CHARLES The Upper Deck

Sale 1907 - Lot 424

Price Realized: $ 6,900

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000

SHEELER, CHARLES
"The Upper Deck." Silver print after his painting of the same title, 8 3/4x6 3/4 inches, lightly hand-tinted; with Sheeler's signature, title, and notations, in ink, notations, in pencil, and a hand stamp on verso. 1929

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Charles Sheeler's painting, "The Upper Deck," was based on a photograph taken aboard the U. S. S. Majestic in 1928. It represented a turning point for Sheeler because, for the first time, he was able to acheive photographic qualities in paint. According to Sheeler experts and authors Theodore Stebbins, Jr. and Norman Keyes, Jr.: "'Upper Deck' [represents] the first time he did nothing to disguise or alter his photographic source." (See: